{"id":2253,"date":"2015-07-29T10:20:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T14:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2015-07-29T10:20:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T14:20:01","slug":"american-bison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2015\/07\/29\/american-bison\/","title":{"rendered":"American Bison"},"content":{"rendered":"
The American bison, also known as the American buffalo, or sometimes just buffalo is a large bovine mammal that once roamed North America in huge numbers but has been hunted to near extinction at one point.
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\nBison meat was one of the most important food source for a large population of humans living in North America in the pre-Columbian era. Some authors, such as Jared Diamond<\/a>, claim that bison cannot be domesticated, yet a large portion of the American bison alive today are living as a sort of domesticated cattle. The fact that most bison have been interbred with cattle probably helps, but the claim that they are inherently impossible to domesticate does not sound believable.<\/p>\n